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And Pakistan, you know, it's quite a country, I mean...I went to a restaurant one day and they had a server, a Pakistani server, and he messed up my order, and I've been asking myself, about the server, the servers, where were they when my burger got covered in hummus? Where was Hillary when that happened? Why?

He talks about Hillary's emails when asked about Russian involvement more than he talked about Russian involvement. He is addicted to red herrings and whataboutisms. More terrifying than that, he cannot override that impulse when addressing the most important political issue of this time. Extraordinary, I think so, and while not inexplicable, it is stunning even for him.

I take solace in the fact that our intelligence communities have been treating him as compromised for 2 years.

I have to trust that extrajudicial spies will take care of my country more than the fucking president of the United States. Jesus Christ.

Imagine basing all of your personality and political views on patriotism and Americans first, and in the same breath supporting the biggest traitor in modern American history. It is just unfathomable. The most ironic thing about Trump supporters is how inherently un-American they are.

I remember a time when I was proud to be American, when it was actually defensible that we weren't ACTUALLY that dumb. But we are. We really, seriously are that fucking dumb. We don't deserve to be the global superpower.

I wish I could have been in the FBI or NSA when this shit went down to feel the atmosphere. I think the response in those halls would tell me whether it's time to leave America or we're going to be ok.

This is the end of the process, the beginning was decades ago. We've been gutted not by foreigners but by ourselves, like the Roman Empire, and we'll fall in a similarly spectacular way it appears.

There's a lot of causes. Widening inequality is a main one I think, followed by the death of facts / the proliferation of partisan, emotion-based media. Lastly, a deep laziness and authoritarian streak on the part of the electoral that I think stems from both poor education and complacency related to American Exceptionalism, or the idea that "We'll always be better than everyone no matter what, and we do not make mistakes."

Why would he stop? His base acts like Hillary is the cause of every problem in the world. It doesn’t matter that she was never president. She is his get out of jail free card forever, because he sold the story to his base.

The real question is, where are the servers? Does this man understand what a server is? Did he drink enough to stay hydrated? Most of all, why is a mentally deranged old man representing a nation there?

I swear that this was not this first time Putin told us what Trump's position on Crimea was. It's as if he doesn't trust Trump to get his talking point right and is like, "no, no, that would be TOO obvious, let me take this one."

Edit: Putin's comments on Crimea. Which seems to differ from what Trump has said before, which is all we have to go on since we don't have any transcripts from the meeting.

For anyone who doesn't understand why this is fucked up to say, Crimea was a part of the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Russia violated that sovereignty on the pretext of protecting ethnic Russians in the eastern part of the country so they could secure the warm water port in Sevastapol before Ukraine joined NATO (they had elected a pro NATO government). Trump is literally parroting a piece of Kremlin propaganda that was used as the justification for an illegitimate invasion.

In 1984 they at least thought humanity smart enough that they would alter the past to change the present. Now they don't even have to go through the effort of altering the past; people will just ignore or disregard it wth "fake news". What I'm saying is that 1984 gave humanity too much credit.

Our President just told every one of our intelligence agencies, and the American men and women that work to protect our nation and our laws, that he thinks they are lying, completely made up all of the evidence... , and that the corrupt authoritarian leader of a nation that is outright attacking us and threatening our allies... is the only one telling the truth.

Sure but I know some cops and they’re not with them him/turning against him. Some Trunpettes are actually quite pissed about this; he can talk shit about liberals all day, but the fact that he’s not objectively denouncing Russia and taking actions has quite a few people angry.

I’ve noticed his relationship with Putin amongst Trump supporters is just kind of ignored or swept under the rug. None of them actively brag about it like they do with his other policies.

but the fact that he’s not objectively denouncing Russia and taking actions has quite a few people angry.

What the fuck took them so long? He's been softer than an ice cream cone in the summer heat on Putin the entire goddamn time. If he spoke half as harshly about the leader of the country that meddled in the very core of our democracy as he does about the leader of our closest allies it would be a huge improvement.

This is not just brushing off accusations of corruption, this is siding with a hostile foreign power over all of our intelligence agencies, the FBI, the SIC that is led by a republican, the intelligence agencies and governments of all of our allies, and let's not forget the American people. He's a traitor.

I've withheld from saying that up until now. But Trump is a traitor. I hope to see a day where he is removed from office. I know people say Pence is worse because he'd actually accomplish things ... but have we finally crossed that line where it'll be better than letting this fat traitor continue on?

I'm right there with you. Hyperbole and shit-smearing has become too commonplace in our current political climate, but holy shit there is a limit, and we just crossed it. He is a fucking traitor, and this unacceptable. Disgusting.

This is Trump’s first press conference I saw live (normally I’d watch excerpts on the news and stuff). I knew his speech and sentence structure was all over the place, but I didn’t know it was THIS bad.

Thing is, hes been "talking" like this since he announced his election bid a few years ago. He's always sounded moronic, can't finish a thought, meanders all over the place, repeats himself, and uses absurd hyperbole. He's a fucking national embarrassment just on how he talks, much less the substance of what he's attempting to say.

I’ve done it out of morbid curiosity, if you watch inter spaced videos and interviews over the past 30 or so years, you see a clear decline in all aspects of language. He latches onto a word once he finishes a ramble because he can’t even figure out what’s going on.

”Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

I think his new one from the Montana rally beats this now for most insane/incoherent rambling. For context, it appears he's talking about crowd size:

"I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully, the brain attached to the mouth. Right?The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important." - President Donald J. Trump, 7/5/2018

The people supporting Trump aren't basing it on reason. This is obvious from watching his rallies. He hits certain key words occasionally and then uses them to rile everyone up emotionally. There's almost nothing rational about it and there doesn't need to be. These aren't people that can be reasoned with.

I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.”

Putin: When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Cells.
Trump: Cells.
Putin: What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.
Trump: Interlinked.
Putin: Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger? Interlinked.
Trump: Interlinked.
Putin: Do you long for having your heart interlinked? Interlinked.
Trump: Interlinked.

I've seen things you folks wouldn't believe. McDonalds arches off the shoulder of Mar a Lago. I watched nuclear beams glitter in the dark of my very smart uncle. All those moments will be lost in the mind of a very stable genius. Time to eat.

Basically, his stupid brain latches onto one word at a time, then he blurts out 5 or 6 sentences based around that one word or phrase, and they're all equally meaningless. Today we saw another "no collusion" shart, and a good one about "servers." After the recent indictments, someone must have mentioned something to him about the DNC servers and the only thing he remembered from the brief was the word "servers."

Actually when he's riffing - speaking off the top of his head - is when he's at his "best."

Sure, he speaks at a 5th grade level doing it (which mirrors his base and partially why they love him) but that's where he comes up with his nicknames and shitty tag lines that get his base frothed up.

It's when he has to speak carefully (like the "I better not tip the press off that Putin and I just discussed hacking the 2018 midterms" shitshow today) that he uses - and utterly mangles - a script.

At this point I think it's less of the "God-Emperor" effect, and more a gross perversion of sunk-cost fallacy. If you're STILL a Trumpeteer, you're in too deep at this point to admit to being bamboozled. So you just double down. Just like Trump would want.

If it happened in a vacuum, it would be... but you have to figure that if you got together a top ten list of "Most Disgraceful Performances by and American President", Like 8 of them would have happened in the past two years.

At this point, Trump's just pretty much running up the score and competing with himself.

It gets worse when you read the Justice Department's indictments. Below I will summarize primary sources from the Justice Department, Senate Intelligence Committee, and the Department of Homeland Security. I will quote directly from primary sources. Today President Trump once again undermined American democracy and its institutions, instead he defended Putin's egregious attacks in front of the entire world.

July 3, 2018 the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Republican Senator Richard Burr, concluded that Russia interfered with the American election and specifically helped Donald J. Trump.[1]

Pg. 4

We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election. Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.

Last week the Justice Department indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers linked to Guccifer 2.0 and their role in hacking Clinton and the DNC.[2] The Russians had access to information on 500,000 voters.[3]

The Russians allegedly hacked America's election infrastructure, including state election boards and secretaries of state. The allegations in Friday's indictment went well beyond merely hacking the Clinton campaign and Democratic campaign committees. From one state election board, the Russians managed to steal information on 500,000 voters, Rosenstein said, although he did not identify which state. Trump won the 2016 election by winning three key states by slim margins that added up to around 80,000 votes.

...An American congressional candidate allegedly asked for, and received, stolen documents about his or her opponent from the Russians.

...Russian hackers targeted Clinton emails the same day Trump called for them to find "missing" emails.

July 27, 2016, remember the date. Candidate Trump publicly asked Russia for their help to hack Hillary Clinton, Russia obliged.

During a campaign rally in Florida on July 27, 2016, President Trump called on Russia to help him find Hillary Clinton's missing 30,000 emails.[4] Special Counsel Mueller's new indictment against 12 Russian Intelligence Officers found that on July 27, 2016 Russian hackers known as Guccifer 2.0 hacked Hillary Clinton's emails.

DoJ Indictment of 12 Russian Intelligence Officers Pg. 7 - 8

The Conspirators spearphished individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign throughout the summer of 2016. For example, on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a thirdparty provider and used by Clinton’s personal office. At or around the same time, they also targeted seventy-six email addresses at the domain for the Clinton Campaign.

June 9, 2016 - A month before candidate Trump publicly asked for help from a foreign adversary, his surrogates met with Russian operatives at the now infamous Trump Tower meeting.

One of the Russian operatives present at the infamous Trump Tower meeting, Rinat Akhmetshin, has ties to Russian intelligence and has a history of being embroiled in court cases related to hacking campaigns. He also has ties to Paul Manafort.[5]

He has an association with a former deputy head of a Russian spy service, the F.S.B., and a history of working for close allies of President Vladimir V. Putin. Twice, he has worked on legal battles for Russian tycoons whose opponents suffered sophisticated hacking attacks, arousing allegations of computer espionage.

Few episodes from Mr. Akhmetshin’s past seem more relevant to Mr. Mueller’s investigation than his work for two Russian billionaires accused of infiltrating their adversaries’ computers during nasty legal battles.

The Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 took place less than a week before revelations that hackers had penetrated the Democratic National Committee’s computers and obtained a trove of emails. Investigators have traced digital espionage to Russian spy agencies.

During the same period that Mr. Akhmetshin was accused of being involved in various hacking schemes, he appears to have been nurturing a relationship with Viktor Ivanov, once the deputy head of Russia’s intelligence service, the F.S.B., and until last year a top aide to Mr. Putin.

Mr. Akhmetshin told journalists that he was a longtime acquaintance of Paul J. Manafort, who served as a high-paid consultant to Mr. Yanukovych for years before becoming chairman of the Trump campaign.

The Senate Judiciary committee testimony of Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson was released unilaterally by Senator Feinstein because Republicans refused. Simpson confirms that the Trump campaign likely received foreign intelligence aid during the 2016 campaign as Manafort had close ties to Russian Intelligence.[6]

Pg. 154 - 155 Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony

A. I mean, one of the key lines here in the second paragraph says "However, he and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his democratic and other political rivals." So the issue with the Trump Tower meeting, as 1 I understand it, is that the Trump people were eager to accept intelligence from a foreign government about their political rivals and that is, you know, I would say, a form of interference. If you're getting help from a foreign government and your help is intelligence, then the foreign government's interfering. I mean, you know, I think that also -- of course, in retrospect we now know this was pretty right on target in terms on what it says. So anyway --

Q. In reference to you think that particular sentence?

A. I mean, it clearly refers to, you know, them being interested in and willing to -- it depicts them as accepting information. What we have seen to date with the disclosures this year is they were at a minimum super interested in getting information.

Q. And when you're referencing the "disclosures this year," could you just be specific about that.

A. The Trump Tower meeting.

Q. So with reference to the June 9th Trump Tower meeting?

A. Yes. Yes.

July 13, 2018 Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warns of devastating cyber threats to U.S. infrastructure.

The President of the United States does not care to protect Americans from ongoing Russian aggression. Russia is actively attacking America's infrastructure and elections while President Trump continues to ignore the issue. Trump's own Director of National Intelligence was sounding the alarm just last week. [7]

The U.S. intelligence chief warned on Friday that the threat was growing for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S. infrastructure, saying the “warning lights are blinking red again” nearly two decades after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are launching daily cyber strikes on the computer networks of federal, state and local government agencies, U.S. corporations, and academic institutions, said Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

Of the four, “Russia has been the most aggressive foreign actor, no question,” he said.

Russia attacked the United States of America and the GOP/Trump have done nothing. On the contrary, today during their joint press conference it was once again suggested that Putin and Trump should create a joint cybersecurity unit between Russia and the U.S.

Earlier this year Special Counsel Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities for election interference.[1] The Russian election meddling operation was a sophisticated attack against the West. This operation was funded through Russian fronts, including a catering company run by a close friend of Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin. They used stolen American identities. Operatives bought political ads on social media sites. Operatives visited the United States, traveled across 9 states and discussed escape routes if they were caught inside the country. Operatives bought equipment including burner phones and SIM cards. The operation included hundreds of employees and millions of dollars, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein put it best - the Russians conducted information warfare during the election.[2] According to the indictment Prigozhin met Mikhail Bystrov, a leader of the Internet Research Agency (IRA), regularly in 2015 and 2016. Prigozhin funded the Internet Research Agency and their meddling of the American election. This was a sophisticated operation that spanned over several years. Prigozhin has been Putin's go to guy for under the table missions, including recruiting mercenaries for the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.

DoJ indictment of 13 Russians and 3 entities Pg. 12 - 19

Object of the Conspiracy;

28.. The conspiracy had as its object impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful government functions of the United States by dishonest means in order to enable the Defendants to interfere with US political and electoral processes, including the 2016 US presidential election.

Manner and Means of the Conspiracy:

29.. Starting at least in or around 2014, Defendants and their co-conspirators began to track and study groups on US social media sites dedicated to US politics and social issues. In order to gauge the performance of various groups on social media sites, the ORGANIZATION tracked certain metrics like the group's size, the frequency of content places by the group, and the level of audience engagement with that content, such as the average number of comments or responses to a post.

a. KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA, together with other defendants and co-conspirators, planned travel itineraries, purchases equipment (such as cameras, SIM cards, and drop phones), and discussed security measures (including "evacuation scenarios") for Defendants who traveled to the United States.

Use of US Social Media Platforms

32.. Defendants and their co-conspirators, through fraud and deceit, created hundres of social media accounts and used them to develop certain fictitious US personas into "leader[s] of public opinion" in the United States.

Use of US Computer Infrastructure

39.. To hide their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, Defendants and their co-conspirators - particularly POLOZOV and the ORGANIZATION's IT department - purchases space on computer servers located inside the United States in order to set up virtual private networks ("VPNs"). Defendants and their co-conspirators connected from Russia to the US based infrastructure by way of these VPNs and conducted activity inside the United Sates - including accessing online social media accounts, opening new accounts, and communicated with real US persons - while masking the Russian origin and control of the activity.

40.. Defendants and their co-conspirators also registered and controlled hundreds of web-based email accounts hosted by US email providers under false names so as to appear to be US persons and groups. From these accounts, Defendants and their co-conspirators registered or linked to online social media accounts in order to monitor them; posed as US persons when requesting assistance from real US persons; contacted media outlets in order to promote activities inside the United States; and conducted other operations, such as those set forth below.

Use of Stolen US Identities

41.. In or around 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators also uses, possessed, and transferred, without lawful authority, the social security numbers and dates of birth of real US persons without those persons' knowledge or consent. Using these means of identification, Defendants and their co-conspirators opened accounts at PayPal, a digital payment service provider; created false means of identification, including fake driver's licenses; and posted on ORGANIZATION - controlled social media accounts using the identities of these US victims.

Actions Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election

42.. By approximately May 2014, Defendants and their co-conspirators discussed efforts to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election. Defendants and their co-conspirators began to monitor US social media accounts and other sources of information about the 2016 US presidential election.

43.. By 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used their fictitious online personas to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election. They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.

45.. Defendants and their co-conspirators also used false US personas to communicate with unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump Campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump. These individuals and entities at times distributed the ORGANIZATION's materials through their own accounts via retweets, reposts, and similar means. Defendants and their co-conspirators then monitored the propagation of content through such participants.

46.. In or around the latter half of 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through their ORGANIZATION-controlled personas, began to encourage US minority groups not to vote in the 2016 US presidential election or to vote for a third-party US presidential candidate.

47.. Starting in or around the summer of 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators also began to promote allegations of voter fraud by the Democratic Party through their fictitious US personas and groups on social media. Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased advertisements on Facebook to further promote the allegations.

Political Advertisements

48.. From at least April 2016 through November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, while concealing their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation through false personas, began to produce, purchase, and post advertisements on US social media and other online sites expressly advocating for the election of then-candidate Trump or expressly opposing Clinton. Defendants and their co-conspirators did not report their expenditures to the Federal Election Commission, or register as foreign agents with the US Department of Justice.

This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This alert provides information on Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors. It also contains indicators of compromise (IOCs) and technical details on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by Russian government cyber actors on compromised victim networks. DHS and FBI produced this alert to educate network defenders to enhance their ability to identify and reduce exposure to malicious activity.

DHS and FBI characterize this activity as a multi-stage intrusion campaign by Russian government cyber actors who targeted small commercial facilities’ networks where they staged malware, conducted spear phishing, and gained remote access into energy sector networks. After obtaining access, the Russian government cyber actors conducted network reconnaissance, moved laterally, and collected information pertaining to Industrial Control Systems (ICS).

You mean the countries Trump views as "foes" like our longest, closest allies?

Fucking Trump is the embodiment of "L'etat c'est moi!" (The nation-state and my person are one in the same - an attack on my person is an attack on the nation.) He wants to claim to believe Russia because he knows they helped him (as Goldstone told Jr, who told Sr., "This is ... part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump...") He views our allies as "foes" because their intel services are sharing information with US intel agencies and law enforcement that exposes his crimes and wrongdoing.

There have been many moments in the past in which have lent credence to the notion Trump is controlled by Russia, but this press conference is the absolute, definitive moment we will look back upon years from now and say “this man doesn’t belong to the United States. He belongs to the man to his left”.

To see the President of the United States stand next to Putin, a murderous thug responsible for interfering with America’s democracy, and blame his OWN FUCKING COUNTRY for Russia’s actions is beyond disgusting.

And it further sickens me millions of Trump supporters will fall in line with his Russia-loving rhetoric.

Oh, just wait until people say "turns out climate change is getting bad!" and you have to bite your tongue so as to not antagonise people when they finally, for fucks sake finally, catch up with reality.

Speaking for myself, I imagined it would be a total disaster, and that he would be the worst president in history. That said, I never thought it would be possible for it to be this bad. We somehow underestimated Trump's stupidity, and his self-serving nature. We overestimated Trump's supporters, thinking they would surely turn away from him if things got worse. We didn't think he could be this big of a traitor to the country, or our allies. We trusted Congress, but they have failed us. We keep saying things like that because we never fathomed that it could get this bad!

I'm calling it treason at this point. I know he will never be tried for treason, but he is selling out our country and our interests for his own benefit and providing aid and comfort to our adversary Russia.

He just stood next to a man who has committed horrendous acts of human rights violations and also invaded a neighboring country and told the world that he believes him over our own Intelligence Community.

If Democrats pick up a bunch of seats in 2018, you will suddenly see a bunch of Republicans start turning against Trump. They will ride the Trump train as long as it profits them, but once they see that they're at risk of getting voted out of office, they'll suddenly grow spines.

Not the ones who are deeply corrupt, of course, but there are a lot of them out there that are just going whichever way the wind blows.

There's nothing more important in the world to Trump than feeding his ego and protecting it from attack.

Suggesting he didn't win the election fair & square is the most serious attack on his ego he could imagine.

Therefore, his brain is willing to do anything, literally anything imaginable before admitting to itself that he only won because he cheated.

Beleiving Putin's story, if that means siding with a foreign adversary over your own country? That's not even a hard choice. America isn't important to Trump, he's not a patriot, he doesn't give a single shit about it's history, the people who have sacrificed their lives for the country.

Trump would happily send a million Americans to the gas chambers before letting his stupid ego deflate for any reason. Today's performance wasn't even close to the lowest he'd stoop to protect himself.

He doesn't care about Trump. He just needs him in place to rubber stamp all his judges. When it no longer serves him politically he will feign outrage. Make no mistake. McConnell is setting our courts back decades and that is all he cares about.

I am a Canadian. I used to love America. Sure, your guys' politics seemed a little crazy to us. Your obsession with guns seemed a little nuts. But I loved America on the world stage. It was the world leader for human rights, it stood up for democracy and freedom. It liberated Europe. It was the architect of the post-war world order. It defeated the USSR. Sure there were mistakes, even glaring ones, like Iraq 2003. But in general, it made the world a better place. It was the shining city on the hill.

This is really sad. The American President is clearly infatuated with the Russian President. His judgement is clearly compromised. This is obvious to anyone who watches him. America is no longer to world's moral leader. It is a client to the world's gangster state.

We are witnessing the decline of the American-led World Order, and we will all be worse off because of it.